First build - will it work?

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Will this all work together? Will I need more fans? The case comes with 2 and I think the cpu has a stock one. Got Arctic Silver 5 High-Density Polysynthetic Silver Thermal Compound AS5-3.5G - OEM for it as well.

Mobo: ASUS M5A97 LE R2.0 AM3+ AMD 970 + SB950 6 x SATA 6Gb/s port(s), gray USB 3.0 ATX AMD

Cpu: AMD FX-8350 Black Edition Vishera 8-Core 4.0 GHz (4.2 GHz Turbo) Socket AM3+ 125W

Gpu: MSI R9 380 4G

Psu: Sentey® Power Supply 725w Xpp725-hs

Ram: 2x G.SKILL Ripjaws X Series 8GB 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800)

Ssd: OCZ Trion 100 2.5" 240GB SATA III TLC Internal SSD TRN100-25SAT3-240G

HDD: plan to reuse my old xps 8100 1.5 tb after reformatting

Case: DIYPC Cuboid-G Black USB 3.0 Gaming Micro-ATX Mid Tower Computer Case
 
Solution
I really suggest switching to intel. Less power/heat and higher performance. For gaming, you only need 8gb. Seasonic makes excellent PSUs. And the case is low priced but good.

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i5-4590 3.3GHz Quad-Core Processor ($179.99 @ Newegg)
Motherboard: ASRock H97M PRO4 Micro ATX LGA1150 Motherboard ($59.99 @ Newegg)
Memory: G.Skill Ripjaws X Series 8GB (1 x 8GB) DDR3-1600 Memory ($38.99 @ Newegg)
Storage: OCZ Trion 100 240GB 2.5" Solid State Drive ($54.99 @ Amazon)
Video Card: MSI Radeon R9 380 4GB Video Card ($174.99 @ Newegg)
Case: Cooler Master N200 MicroATX Mid Tower...
I really suggest switching to intel. Less power/heat and higher performance. For gaming, you only need 8gb. Seasonic makes excellent PSUs. And the case is low priced but good.

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i5-4590 3.3GHz Quad-Core Processor ($179.99 @ Newegg)
Motherboard: ASRock H97M PRO4 Micro ATX LGA1150 Motherboard ($59.99 @ Newegg)
Memory: G.Skill Ripjaws X Series 8GB (1 x 8GB) DDR3-1600 Memory ($38.99 @ Newegg)
Storage: OCZ Trion 100 240GB 2.5" Solid State Drive ($54.99 @ Amazon)
Video Card: MSI Radeon R9 380 4GB Video Card ($174.99 @ Newegg)
Case: Cooler Master N200 MicroATX Mid Tower Case ($27.99 @ Newegg)
Power Supply: SeaSonic 650W 80+ Gold Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply ($59.99 @ Newegg)
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 10 Home OEM (64-bit) ($84.98 @ OutletPC)
Total: $681.91
 
Solution
There are ZERO mATX motherboards (which is what fits in your case) that will run your CPU well. Even your original board would not have worked. You need a different case. My bad for not noticing that your case would not work in the first place. I was not thorough enough in my checking.

I would recommend something like this instead.

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i5-4460 3.2GHz Quad-Core Processor ($159.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Motherboard: ASRock H97M-ITX/AC Mini ITX LGA1150 Motherboard ($59.99 @ Newegg)
Memory: G.Skill Ripjaws X Series 8GB (1 x 8GB) DDR3-1600 Memory ($38.99 @ Newegg)
Memory: G.Skill Ripjaws X Series 8GB (1 x 8GB) DDR3-1600 Memory ($38.99 @ Newegg)
Storage: OCZ Trion 100 240GB 2.5" Solid State Drive ($54.99 @ Amazon)
Video Card: MSI Radeon R9 380 4GB Video Card ($174.99 @ Newegg)
Case: DIYPC Cuboid-G MicroATX Mini Tower Case ($59.99 @ Newegg)
Power Supply: EVGA 750W 80+ Bronze Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply ($54.99 @ NCIX US)
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 10 Home OEM (64-bit) ($84.98 @ OutletPC)
Total: $727.90
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-11-29 10:28 EST-0500

You could save quite a bit more with some other part changes.

EDIT :SNAP
 
Would switching to Intel really be better? Even with lower clock speed? Looking into a different case as well, thank you. Also, 8gb ram is really enough? Will have dual screen, likely running ts3, steam, loads of arma 3 mods w six updater, track ir.
 
Ok how's this look? PCPartPicker part list: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/6DP9kL
Price breakdown by merchant: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/6DP9kL/by_merchant/

CPU: Intel Core i5-4460 3.2GHz Quad-Core Processor ($159.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Motherboard: ASRock H97M-ITX/AC Mini ITX LGA1150 Motherboard ($70.55 @ SuperBiiz)
Memory: G.Skill Ripjaws X Series 8GB (1 x 8GB) DDR3-1600 Memory ($39.89 @ OutletPC)
Memory: G.Skill Ripjaws X Series 4GB (1 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory ($21.89 @ OutletPC)
Storage: OCZ Trion 100 240GB 2.5" Solid State Drive ($54.99 @ Amazon)
Video Card: MSI Radeon R9 380 4GB Video Card ($174.99 @ Newegg)
Case: DIYPC Cuboid-G MicroATX Mini Tower Case ($59.99 @ Newegg)
Power Supply: EVGA 750W 80+ Bronze Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply ($54.99 @ NCIX US)
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 10 Home OEM (64-bit) ($84.98 @ OutletPC)
Total: $722.26

Dropped it to 12gb ram, cause 4gb comes with the cpu free
 
Final config: PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i5-4590 3.3GHz Quad-Core Processor ($159.99 @ Micro Center)
Motherboard: ASRock H97M PRO4 Micro ATX LGA1150 Motherboard ($60.35 @ SuperBiiz)
Memory: G.Skill Ripjaws X Series 8GB (1 x 8GB) DDR3-1600 Memory ($39.89 @ OutletPC)
Storage: OCZ Trion 100 240GB 2.5" Solid State Drive ($54.99 @ Amazon)
Video Card: MSI Radeon R9 380 4GB Video Card ($174.99 @ Newegg)
Case: DIYPC Cuboid-G MicroATX Mini Tower Case ($59.99 @ Newegg)
Power Supply: EVGA 750W 80+ Bronze Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply ($54.99 @ NCIX US)
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 10 Home OEM (64-bit) ($84.98 @ OutletPC)
Total: $690.17
Thank you all for the help!
 
Don't go with the 12Gb of RAM it will cause some slowing, as will 1 x 8 with 2 x 4, and that motherboard handles only two sticks.

Yes. The individual cores of the Intel are more efficient (more instructions per second) then the AMD. Only when all four AMD modules are used at full effect does the AMD chip put equal to the i5.

You final build is good. 2 x 4 Ram is still cheap at Newegg. 16Gb is not needed for gaming yet and most games would not even want it.